____________________________________________________ I am the door; whoever goes in through me will be saved; he will go in and out and find pasture.John 10:9 Jesus is saying that we have lost our way. We do not know ourselves. We are not at home within ourselves. We have lost the ability to live. At best we are […]
We have had a pause for two weeks of this series due to a family bereavement. Please join us again to continue this journey through Lent. ___________________________________________ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring goodness to the poor.Luke 4:18 The befriending Spirit of God – in a […]
For freedom Christ has set us free. Galatians 5:1 ______________________________________________ Jesus was uniquely free. He created a space within himself in order to be available for every encounter. This is the source of his authority and attractiveness. Learning Jesus means being brave enough to resist, in our loneliness for example, calling someone up, going shopping, […]
Imagine! Imagine!the long and wondrous journeystill to be ours. Mary Oliver The slow fire of the impossible is lit by the imagination.Emily Dickinson Imagination is the “human power that opens us up to possibility and promise, the not-yet of the future”. Kathleen Fischer ________________________________________________ Our future is often more open than we even dare to […]
Come unto me all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11: […]
Hope is rooted in the past but believes in the future. Hope lies in the memory of God’s previous goodness to us in a world that is both bountiful and harsh. Joan Chittister Memory [is] not just a storehouse of the past, but also a warehouse in the present containing the building blocks of the […]
God has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 Hope is a fragile plant reaching towards the sun, whose rays are radiated through the attention and care we have found in so many of the people, events and circumstances that make […]
[Faith] sees the raising of the tortured and crucified Son of Man as God’s great protest against death… Jurgen Moltmann [Faith] sees the raising of the tortured and crucified Son of Man as God’s great protest against death and against everyone who plays into death’s hands and threatens life…. Resistance is the protest of those […]
Hope is a deeply inward grace Hope is a deeply inward grace, perhaps our most basic and grandest resource. It is also a deeply communal act, when we know that “there is help on the outside of us”. For if it were an entirely inward resource, the implication would be that we all we need […]
Our human hungers are seeds of hope. Robert Durback Being human is about being hopeful. But because we are incomplete, unfinished, hopelessness is also part of the deal. To ensure that we keep this hopelessness out of our hoping, we need to live out of our deepest desires. For when we stop wanting, we stop […]